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ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to upgrade a group of proscribed organisations to ‘high risk’ and start monitoring and re-examining their activities and profiles under heightened security checks at all layers of legal, administrative, investigative and financial regimes to comply with the requirement of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

In theory the solution is simple: Pakistan’s security establishment must be convinced the cost for using terrorism as an instrument of state policy outweighs the benefits. Showing Pakistan the tremendous economic and diplomatic benefits it would accrue from abandoning this misguided adventure is the easy part. Getting the U.S. government and international community to do a much more effective job imposing costs has proved more challenging. They will have to devote more time, energy, and diplomatic capital to the endeavor, including pressuring Pakistan’s remaining patrons, China and Saudi Arabia, to help break the destructive cycle. It’s a painful pill to swallow but one necessary to break an even deadlier fever.

saip wrote:Looks like the brain dead FM of Pakistan is complaining about the caps worn by Indian cricketers in ODI to ICC.Link

Shah Mehmood Quresh is not the only Minister from the Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan who has got his shalwar in a twist over the cap worn by the Indian cricket team. Fawad Ahmed Chaudhry aka Fawad Hussain Chaudhry, Minister for Information and Broadcasting was also grumbling about the Indian cricket teams choice of head gear on twitter. In any event the ICC can do bugger all about wearing camouflage pattern cap with the BCCI crest and Nike’s corporate logo in a “non white” attire wearing ODI match.

“It’s just not Cricket”, I hope ICC ll take action for politicising Gentleman’s game ... if Indian Cricket team ll not be stopped, Pak Cricket team should wear black bands to remind The World about Indian atrocities in Kashmir... I urge #PCB to lodge formal protest

Finance Minister of the Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Asad Umar, in his Twitter account writes that he has written to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) President to remove India from the position of co-chair for the Pakistan FATF review.

I have written to the FATF president to remove India from the position of co chair for the Pakistan FATF review. India has blatantly abused its position by lobbying to get Pakistan blacklisted in the last review in Paris. We successfully defended our position Alhamdulillah

WASHINGTON: India is asking the Trump administration to examine the possible misuse of US-made F-16s by Pakistan during its attempted air incursion across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, saying Islamabad may have violated Washington's terms and conditions of the sale.

New Delhi has presented extensive testimony by American officials to the US Congress in which they assured lawmakers that Washington has a ''very enhanced end-use monitoring program'' of Pakistan’s F-16s, which has long been a symbol of pride and machismo for the Pakistan Air Force, even though it is now largely outdated.

The US commitment was made in a June 2006 hearing by John Hillen, US assistant secretary of state for politico-military affairs in the state department, in response to concerns from the House International Relations Committee about the possible misuse of the fighter jet by Pakistan.

Among the assurances provided by Hillen was that Pakistan must comply with approved security plans for their F-16-related bases and facilities before the US would release any systems in the sale.

"We will have a US presence to monitor compliance with the security plan requirements, a very enhanced end-use monitoring program,'' Hillen told the committee, outlining ''semiannual inventories of all F-16 aircraft equipment and munitions, including related technical data, and more frequent inventories for other systems."

Hillen pledged a "two-man rule, so to speak, for access to this equipment and restricted areas, and F-16 flights outside of Pakistan or participation in exercises and operations with third nations must be approved in advance by the United States government."

The US also mandated that the F-16 maintenance and parts storage must be in dedicated facilities as part of the overall surveillance plan, and there "will be no delivery of F-16 aircraft equipment and munitions until Pakistan is fully compliant with the security plan requirements."

The assurances suggest Washington can easily determine if Pakistan used the F16s in its air attack on India with the possible loss of one F16 that New Delhi says was shot down by the MiG-21 Bison. After initial reports that F-16 jets were involved in the attack, Pakistan has quickly backed down and claimed only its China-developed JF-17 aircraft was used.

However, New Delhi’s presentation of parts of an Amraam missile discharged on its territory has put Pakistan in a spot.

"Evidence of the use of Amraam Missile, which can only be deployed on the F-16 with Pakistan, has also been shown to the media. We have asked the United States to also examine whether the use of F16 against India is in accordance with the terms and conditions of sale," India’s external affairs ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

The statement also said Pakistan should explain why it continues to deny that its F-16 aircraft has been shot down when there are eye-witness accounts and electronic evidence, and if, as Pakistan claims, a second Indian aircraft was shot down, why it has not shown the fuselage or produced the pilot of that aircraft.

Pakistan initially claimed to have shot down two Indian jets, and some videos posted online showed two pilots bailing out. Subsequent reports spoke of one of them being the pilot of a Pakistani F-16 who was beaten to death by a mob that mistook him for an Indian pilot.

There were also fervid stories in the Pakistani media that Israel was involved in the attack and an Israeli pilot had been captured by Pakistan.

The Trump administration has not addressed the issue of the F-16 use or loss by Pakistan beyond saying it is looking into the matter.

The fourth-generation fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin has long been the mainstay of the Pakistan Air Force (and many other air forces across the world), and the company has in recent years offered to shift the entire manufacturing line to India to keep it extant.

The dogfight over F16 use/misuse came even as US officials and military commanders trod a delicate line on Pakistan’s continued patronage of terrorism in view of Islamabad’s role in bringing the Taliban to the table to enable an American exit from Afghanistan.

The US Centcom Commander Gen Joseph Votel told American lawmakers last week that "Pakistan based groups like Lashkar-e-Tayyiba threaten India and carry out attacks that jeopardize regional stability and US strategic interests" but said Pakistan presents both challenges and opportunities and its cooperation is "imperative for the success of our South Asia strategy."

The US South Asia strategy essentially gives India primacy in the region

If Pakistan thinks they can scare Modi by playing mad, the Balakot air strikes show that he can scare them even more. Pakistan's madman theory has been turned on its head.

For nearly thirty years now, Pakistan has been playing the madman with nukes. The strategic deterrence posture of Pakistan has been based on first-use of nuclear weapons against any conventional attack on Pakistan, especially from India. Innumerable times over these three decades, Pakistani generals and politicians have, at the drop of a hat, threatened the use of nuclear weapons against India.

Having convinced the world that they consider nuclear weapons as weapons of war not weapons of deterrence, Pakistan had successfully deterred India from using its conventional superiority to punish Pakistan for its relentless and remorseless export of terrorism.

Rationality is, however, a subjective thing, and irrationality is a game two can play. While it was perfectly rational for Pakistanis to play irrational, it was quite irrational for India to play rationally in the face of Pakistan's act of irrationality. Many analysts and strategists had been advocating the need to call Pakistan's bluff, but until the airstrikes on the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist camp in Balakot, Indian leaders preferred to play according to the Pakistani playbook. Balakot has, however, changed the playbook, not just India’s, but also perhaps Pakistan’s. ……………….

TEHRAN: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has demanded Pakistan to act "decisively against anti-Iranian terrorists" in a phone call with the country's premier, Tehran said, a month after a bloody attack on security forces.

Iran says a Pakistani suicide bomber was behind the February 13 attack that killed 27 Revolutionary Guards in its volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.

A Sunni jihadist group, Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), which Tehran says operates mostly out of bases in neighbouring Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the blast.

Iran has accused Pakistan's army and intelligence agency of sheltering the jihadists and summoned the country's ambassador in the wake of the attack.

Rouhani in the phone conversation Saturday evening with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called to maintain good ties and pointed the finger of blame at Tehran's traditional regional and international foes.

"We shouldn't allow decades of friendship and brotherhood between the two countries be affected by terrorist groups that we both know from where they are being armed and financed," Rouhani said, according to a government statement.

The Iranian president was alluding to the United States and Israel, as well as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which it accuses of aiding jihadist groups responsible for attacks from Pakistani soil.

February's bombing was the latest of numerous attacks on Iran's security forces and officials in Sistan-Baluchistan, where the minority Sunni Baluchis accuse the authorities of discrimination.

KARACHI: Finance Minister Asad Umar said on Saturday that there will be an inflow of around $4.1 billion in the next two weeks after which the State Bank of Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves will swell to over $12bn.

Addressing a seminar on “Financing to Support Make in Pakistan”, organised by Pakistan Business Council (PBC), the minister said that an agreement has been reached with Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) for a loan of $2bn and the amount is expected to be remitted next week. He said that China is also expected to provide $2.1bn in the week thereafter.

Responding to a question, the minister said that loan from ADFD is being sought at a fixed interest rate of three per cent whereas the loan from China is being charged at 2.5pc. He explained that State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reserves, which stand at $8.116bn, will climb to over $12bn after these inflows.

Responding to another question, the minister said the business community in a meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan demanded ninth amnesty scheme and for this, the government has asked trade bodies to submit their proposals. But he categorically stated that the government will only give another amnesty scheme if it is beneficial to the economy because so far no desired results were achieved.

@arun, will you please stop using the above prefix every time you refer to pak. It is irritating to read this in each of your posts and appears childish.

You may please note that the description is true, in keeping with the spirit of the name of this thread and also compliant with posting rules. You may please feel free to assuage your sensibilities, avoid feeling of irritability and foster a sense of your adulthood by not reading my posts.

Joh Lahore Mein Gaan*u Woh London mein bhi Gaan*u Hai. Indulging in the national pastime of the Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan catches up with two sisters who have their UK Citizenship Revoked:

As tension persists between Pakistan and India, the latter has now started impeding the flow of three rivers shared by the two nuclear-armed neighbours,Express News reported on Monday.

India’s Union Minister of State for Water Resources Arjun Mehghwal announced the move at an event in Rajasthan on Sunday. He said New Delhi had stopped 0.53 million acre-feet of water from the three eastern rivers flowing into Pakistan.

“The water has been stored and will be used whenever Rajasthan or Punjab needs it. It can be used for drinking or irrigation purposes.”

Another Indian minister, Nitin Gadkari, had announced similar plans just days after the February 14 Pulwama suicide bombing in occupied Kashmir.

It remains unclear whether New Delhi’s latest act of aggression could be viewed as a violation of the Indus Waters Treaty. Under the agreement signed in 1960, Islamabad has unrestricted access to the western rivers Indus, Jhelum and Chenab, while New Delhi enjoys the same authority over the eastern rivers Ravi, Beas and Sutlej.

However, in December last year, Pakistan’s Minister for Law and Justice Barrister Dr Muhammad Farogh Naseem said India had started using water from the western rivers for industrial purposes.

“The treaty had ensured that India could only use water to generate electricity from these rivers if it did not disrupt water supply to Pakistan,” he said.

Expressing Islamabad’s concerns over India’s plans to build dams over Jehlum and Chenab, he had urged the World Bank and other international players to play their due role.

The minister had called out India for repeated threats to revoke the treaty, reminding New Delhi that the agreement could only be terminated with mutual consent.

ISLAMABAD: More than $2.3 billion disbursement by the World Bank committed for the current fiscal year has been held up due to bureaucratic hurdles as the government banks on short-term loans from friendly countries to meet its foreign exchange needs

MULTAN: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday said that inflation has increased by 200 percent and still era of General (R) Pervez Musharraf in the country is going on and Shaukat Aziz is still there.

He said that the country has bankrupted economically.

Addressing a press conference in Multan on Sunday, he said that the country is being divided ideologically, adding that discussions to accept Israel are underway in the country.

The JUI-F chief said, “I strongly condemn the civilisation that was demonstrated on the International Women Day. Indian culture is being promoted in the country.” Opposition parties are in contact with one another and they have complete support of the nation, he said.

“India faced defeat in recent escalation,” Fazlur Rehman said and added Narendra Modi is using war hysteria to score points to win upcoming elections.

The JUI-F chief said that Indian pilot should have been released after guarantee, adding that if former prime minister Nawaz Sharif or former president Asif Ali Zardari had released the pilot, they would have been accused of friends with the Indian PM.I'm the Dim has the approbation of Qamar "The Waist" Bajwa!

He went on to say that injustice is being done with Nawaz Sharif and the government are taking revenge by not providing him access to doctor.

The samjhauta express case was to be decided today but a paki national appeared at the very last minute, ambushed the court and filed a plea before the court asking for more witnesses to be heard.

This was the case where the CIA had said that the pakis and the ISI were directly involved and no Indian was complicit but the two pakis arrested by the Indian cops were let off without any interrogation and the saffron terror angle was brought in by the congis to discredit the RSS and the BJP.

Let's see how this latest congi-paki ploy plays out. These two are actually in cahoots.

MULTAN: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday said that inflation has increased by 200 percent and still era of General (R) Pervez Musharraf in the country is going on and Shaukat Aziz is still there.

He said that the country has bankrupted economically.

Addressing a press conference in Multan on Sunday, he said that the country is being divided ideologically, adding that discussions to accept Israel are underway in the country.

The JUI-F chief said, “I strongly condemn the civilisation that was demonstrated on the International Women Day. Indian culture is being promoted in the country.” Opposition parties are in contact with one another and they have complete support of the nation, he said.

“India faced defeat in recent escalation,” Fazlur Rehman said and added Narendra Modi is using war hysteria to score points to win upcoming elections.

The JUI-F chief said that Indian pilot should have been released after guarantee, adding that if former prime minister Nawaz Sharif or former president Asif Ali Zardari had released the pilot, they would have been accused of friends with the Indian PM.I'm the Dim has the approbation of Qamar "The Waist" Bajwa!

He went on to say that injustice is being done with Nawaz Sharif and the government are taking revenge by not providing him access to doctor.

Cheers

The JUI-F chief said that Indian pilot should have been released after guarantee,

The court could have ignored it but they want to see which the wind blows on 23 May 19 before deceiding the case. Most beuracrats, judicial system have never seen the C-system out of power since independence for 10 years and hence hesitate to make honest decisions. As far they are concerned, C system with media on tow can do a lot of things.

MULTAN: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday said that inflation has increased by 200 percent and still era of General (R) Pervez Musharraf in the country is going on and Shaukat Aziz is still there.

He said that the country has bankrupted economically.

Addressing a press conference in Multan on Sunday, he said that the country is being divided ideologically, adding that discussions to accept Israel are underway in the country.

The JUI-F chief said, “I strongly condemn the civilisation that was demonstrated on the International Women Day. Indian culture is being promoted in the country.” Opposition parties are in contact with one another and they have complete support of the nation, he said.

“India faced defeat in recent escalation,” Fazlur Rehman said and added Narendra Modi is using war hysteria to score points to win upcoming elections.

The JUI-F chief said that Indian pilot should have been released after guarantee, adding that if former prime minister Nawaz Sharif or former president Asif Ali Zardari had released the pilot, they would have been accused of friends with the Indian PM.I'm the Dim has the approbation of Qamar "The Waist" Bajwa!

He went on to say that injustice is being done with Nawaz Sharif and the government are taking revenge by not providing him access to doctor.

Cheers

chetak wrote:The JUI-F chief said that Indian pilot should have been released after guarantee,

MULTAN: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday said that inflation has increased by 200 percent and still era of General (R) Pervez Musharraf in the country is going on and Shaukat Aziz is still there.

He said that the country has bankrupted economically.

Addressing a press conference in Multan on Sunday, he said that the country is being divided ideologically, adding that discussions to accept Israel are underway in the country.

The JUI-F chief said, “I strongly condemn the civilisation that was demonstrated on the International Women Day. Indian culture is being promoted in the country.” Opposition parties are in contact with one another and they have complete support of the nation, he said.

“India faced defeat in recent escalation,” Fazlur Rehman said and added Narendra Modi is using war hysteria to score points to win upcoming elections.

The JUI-F chief said that Indian pilot should have been released after guarantee, adding that if former prime minister Nawaz Sharif or former president Asif Ali Zardari had released the pilot, they would have been accused of friends with the Indian PM.I'm the Dim has the approbation of Qamar "The Waist" Bajwa!

He went on to say that injustice is being done with Nawaz Sharif and the government are taking revenge by not providing him access to doctor.

Cheers

chetak wrote:The JUI-F chief said that Indian pilot should have been released after guarantee,

Taking a strong action in retaliation to the repeated ceasefire violations by the Pakistan Army, the Indian Army has killed six Pakistani soldiers in the cross-firing at the Line of Control in the Rajouri sector of Jammu and Kashmir in the last one week, Army sources said here.

"In our action against Pakistani positions, six Pakistani soldiers were killed. We have confirmed this through intercepts of the Pakistan Army communication in the Rajouri sector," sources said.

The Indian Army deployed the 105-mm field artillery guns, Vijayant tank turrets and the Bofors 52 caliber guns.

WASHINGTON: India and the United States on Monday called on Pakistanto take “concerted action to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure and to deny safe haven to all terrorist groups in its territory,” following India’s foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale’s meeting on Monday with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo.

In a statement that seemed to reflect continued skepticism about Pakistan's claims that it was acting against homegrown terror groups that have been internationally proscribed, New Delhi said the two sides also agreed that countries which “support or abet terrorism in any form should be held accountable.”

“Foreign Secretary conveyed appreciation to the US Government and to Secretary Pompeo personally for the firm support that India received from the US in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Pulwama, in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. He apprised Secretary Pompeo about recent developments in this regard. Secretary Pompeo expressed his understanding of India's concerns regarding cross-border terrorism,” the Indian Embassy said in a press release following the meeting.

Meeting the cabinet principal in charge of US foreign policy first-up during a three-day visit underscored the receptivity with which the Trump administration has received New Delhi’s position on Pakistan’s use of terror – Washington’s other niggles with New Delhi (such as trade deficit) notwithstanding.

Both the White House and the State Department have excoriated Pakistan for its continued dalliance with terror groups and the tenor of the statement following the Pompeo-Gokhale meeting hewed close to the Trump administration’s line on the issue: Pakistan must forgo its use of terror groups in the region and establish its bonafides in this regard before any otherdemands.

Although the Indian foreign secretary’s visit has a wider agenda and he has meetings scheduled with his counterparts Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Andrea Thompson, calling on Pompeo at the top of the visit and the statement that followed highlighted mutualconcern regarding Pakistan after recent aggravations in the region.

This was the first direct personal exchange between the two sides after the Pulwama terror attack followed by the Balakot air strikes, which the Trump administration characterized as “counterterrorism action,” thus endorsing what New Delhi has said will be the new norm in response to any terrorist attacks emanating from Pakistan.

The Indian Embassy said the foreign secretary and secretary Pompeo also discussed “other issues of mutual interest including Afghanistan and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, and agreed to closely work together in this regard.”

In response to secretary Pompeo's reference to bilateral trade matters, the foreign secretary underscored the significant reduction in trade deficit in the last three years and conveyed India's willingness to remain engaged with the US for a meaningful and mutually acceptable package on trade issues, the Embassy statement said.

The Trump administration has taken a tough line on trade issues with India, withdrawing preferential treatment to more than $5.6 billion worth of imports from India that was subjected to zero tariffs under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) scheme conceived in the 1970s to help developing countries. President Trump is insistent on bridging trade deficits with major partners, and although the $21.3 billion deficit with India is a fraction of the $325 billion US deficit with China, he wants New Delhi to open up its markets and buy more American goods and produce to reduce the gap.

While there are apprehensions in some quarters that the business-oriented US President may be overemphasizing trade issues with India at the expense of strategic engagement, the Indian statement expressed satisfaction over the “significant progress and the quality of the India-US Strategic Partnership since Secretary Pompeo's visit to India in September 2018 for the first ever ministerial 2+2 Dialogue.”

Ijaz Shah is a well known Jihadi. Omar Sheikh Sayeed (freed by India after the Kandahar hijacking and the fella who killed Daniel Pearl) "Surrendered" to Ijaz Shah and was staying at his place. Musharraf appointed him as high commissioner to Australia, and Australian government refused to accept him.

His appointment by Dimran will Indicate that Pakistan is not really serious about curtailing terror.

Pakistan’s military is taking a key role in the development of one of the world’s biggest untapped copper and gold deposits, which is currently stalled by a multi-billion dollar legal wrangle with foreign mining firms, multiple sources familiar with the situation said.

I think they should also get into software, banking and some of their soldiers can become uber drivers.

All three of the Mohammadden majority “Four Fathers” aka “Fore Fathers” of the Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan interact with our Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the same day ie: 11th March via phone and face to face meeting .

Pakistan’s military is taking a key role in the development of one of the world’s biggest untapped copper and gold deposits, which is currently stalled by a multi-billion dollar legal wrangle with foreign mining firms, multiple sources familiar with the situation said.

I think they should also get into software, banking and some of their soldiers can become uber drivers.

Well, they are already world leaders in "IT" , so software should be a atural progression